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ul By ROBERT DOWSON
United Press Sta
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LONDON, Jan. 23.—Berlin reported today that Adolf Hitler had rushed Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and others of his best commanders to the Eastern front and
given them “complete power” to rally German strength against the Russians in any way they saw fit.
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REVEAL PLAN 10 CUT PRICES ON CLOTHING
WPB and OPA Working Out ‘Program for Return to 1943 Price Level.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 23 (U, P.). ~—Price Administrator Chester Bowles and Production Chief J. A. Krug today announced a synchronized, far-reaching program which they said was designed to keep American civilians “decently” clothed in the face of rising prices and dwindling supplies of cotton, wool and rayon. The drastic new program is and low-priced essential garments by 6 or 7 per cent in the next few months, This roll-back, plus elimination of an anticipated price increase of a similar amount if left uncontrolled, will save the consumer an estimated $500,000,000 yearly, they said, -
Back to 1943 Level
The program should get quality, quantity and prices of dssential apparel back to the level of the first six months of 1943, when the hold-the-line order began to take effect. Bowles and Krug unveiled their plan. at a joint press ‘conference after informing .100 invited trade representatives of its details. The officials said that the program will be considered “tough” by many business interests. They told the industry, nevertheless, it will continue to make profits “well above” their peacetime earnings.
Supply in Few Months
Bowles said that the plan, still in tentative form, will go into effect shortly and that in a few months retailers should have better supplies of the low and mediumpriced garments “their customers: want.” _ The program embraces the entire textile industry, from the mill right through to the retailer. In many cases, the garment will bear the retail price marked on it by the manufacturer. The government officials said the retail clothing prices have increased more than 11 per cent in the past 18 ménths and said the upward price ‘spiral threatens to increase at an accelerated rate. They said that because of the critical situation, only a far-reach-| ing program with suitable controls can solve the.problem.
Aids Smal Merchants
Under this program, which has eight chief points, priorities will be assigned for the bulk of the fabric produced for civilian purposes. This is designed to assure that the materials will find their way into low and medium-priced garments. Other points in the program: The amount of trimmings and frills used on garments :will' be limited. Each garment manufacturer must sel] the same proportion of his output as in 1943 to dealers who purchased from him during that period in order to get equitable’ distribution. This will enable many small re ilers to get a fair share of essential low and medium-priced
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As Navy Plane Leaves Golden Gate
By ROBERT C. ELLIOTT scripps-Howard Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. — Ernie Pyle, looking fresh and wiry, now plunges into the job of covering the in the Pacific. After three and a half months of vacation, spent mostly at his home in Albuquerque, N. M,, Ernie still weighs 112 pounds but he can still take the beating a man gets in the war. “Guess I got a constitution like a horse,” says Ernie with a sly grin.
» ” . ERNIE makes no bones about it ~—he’s scared about going back. “It's not that I have a premonition that death's going to catch up with me,” he said before a navy plane flew him out the Golden Gate to cover the war against Japan. “It’s nothing more than any foot soldier in the lines feels. You know that every one of you is running the chance of being killed.
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From Yank Patrols
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 23.—Vanguards of the American 14th corps today drove to within sight of Bamban and the first of the Clark field airstrips. They were only 53 miles north of Manila, Capas, four miles northeast of Bamban and 56 miles north of Manila, fell yesterday in the swift American advance down the main highway. It appeared - likely Bamban also would be captured by dusk today. (Tokyo radio, recorded at San Francisco, said an American convoy consisting ot three crufSers, 24 destroyers, 70 transports and 56 landing bargets was seen “furtively cruising about” in Lingayen gulf yesterday.) Resistance continued negligible. Though earliér “reports indicated the Japanese might make a stand
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Jenner
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Former short-term U. 8S. Senator Willlam E. Jenner has been asswed by Republican National Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. that he will be notified “within the next 10 days"® regarding the proposal to make Jenner a full-time,
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full-pay executive assistant of the G. O. P. national committee, it was learned today. The idea was discussed between Mr. Jénner and Mr: Brownell after ihe Republican national committee meeting at the Claypool yesterday. Mr. Brownell was given full power to employ whatever - personnel he deems advisable. He hinted to Mr. Jenner that he is assured of a job and there may be ai al other assistants also em8 | ployed. Mr. Jenner at present has left his Bedford law practice to be the legis-
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1945
had gone to the east to take personal command -of the battle, one Berlin report said.) . . “The fuelirer has sent his best army commanders and
men of iron determination
like Reich leader Heinrich
Himmler to the focal points of the battle,” a Nazi broad-
cast said.
“They have been given complete power and will make
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SENATE TO CALL JONES, WALLACE
Committee Is Considering Cabinet Nomination And George Bill.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.— The senate commerce committee decided today to call former Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones before it tomorrow. The committee is considering both President Roosevelt's nomination of Wallace to succeed Jones and a bill by Senator Walter George (D. Ga.) to divorce the government’s multi-billion-dollar lending agencies from the commerce department. Wallace's nomination reached the senate yesterday. It was just a lap ahead of the nomination of Aubrey Williams, director of the condemned and abandoned national youth administration, to succeed Harry Slattery as director of the rural electrification administration. :
Williams Fight Seen
" There 1s likely to be a real fight against Williams, too. He was a-.left-wing member of
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ernmental career and recently has been ‘connected with the Farmers union. The division on Williams will be similar to that on Wallace—conservative Democrat against New Dealer.
Balance of Power?
Republicans hope to cast balance of power votes. Capitol Hill also heard today.that President Roosevelt is thinking of nominating Judge Samuel I, Rosenman of New York for some job away from the White House, where ne now is a special assistant. Senators have been asked how they would like him as solicitorgeneral or secretary of labor. Rosenman left the country yesterday to’ visit European areas as
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STATE LICENSE BILL | FOR CAFES STUDIED
Legislature Calls Parley on Protecting Food.
By DONNA MIKELS A seven-point legislative program designed to reduce food poisoning by curbing “flagrant” violations of health laws. in restaurants and other food dispensaries was scheduled to be presented at ‘a joint meeting of the public health committees of both houses of the legislature today. J. E. Hunsberger, Ft. Wayne, food poisoning expert, was to address législators, giving a resume of un-
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Yanks Enter Last German Base In Bulge
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American fliers destroyed or damaged more than 4000 German vehicles attempting to escape from the Ardennes yesterday in probably the biggest tactical strike of the war. The following dispatch is a behind-the-scenes aecount of that action.
By WALTER CRONKITE United Press Stafl Correspondent NINTH AIR FORCE CONTROL STATION, Western. Front, Jan. 22 (Delayed) —Here in a tiny trailer, smaller than a modern kitchenette, was unfolded the whole drama on this greatest day in the air war since 1940. Here a telephone jangled with the first report that the Germans had dared to bunch up thelr transport in the longest and most vulnerable column since the Falaise gap. Here a soft-spoken young flight officer from Arizona spoke into a microphone the few words that unleashed the dread Thunderbolt fighter-bombers on the Germans. » . “
AND HERE, through a small
of excited pilots, They were reporting the second by second destruction: of dozens upon dozens of trucks and tanks. The battle exceeded any
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~~ The broadcast signalized Berlin's acknowledgement that the battle of Germany had begun in the east, since Himmler is commander in chief of the German home army and commander of the gestapo, which allied armies have credited with keeping Germany in the war. Unconfirmed reports from Stockholm said Nazi leaders were fleeing Berlin, and the rest of the capital's in-
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WILTING. NAZIS SPEED FLIGHT T0 WEST WALL
3d Punches Out Four-Mile Gain in Wake of Great Air Blitz.
By BOYD LEWIS United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Jan. 23.—The American’ 1st army fought house to house through St. Vith today. On the rest of its Ar-| dennes front the 3d pursued| German forces in full flight! out of Belgium. “We are having trouble keeping up with them they are fleeing so fast,’ a staff officer at Lt. Gen.
told war correspondents. Only at St, Vith did the Germans make a fight of the last phase of their withdrawal into the Siegfried fortifications. And that stand apparently was aimed only at holding .open escape channels.
30th Moves Up
The shell-torn wreckage of St. Vith and a bare few miles to the east was about all that was left of Marshal Karl von Rundstedt’s “Christmas holiday” in the west.
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were safely away.
A German broadcast plainly trying to boost morale
on the home front said that “already the Soviet hordes are getting a fore-taste of German contempt for death
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BUSINESSES GET SET FOR BROWNOUT HERE.
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Two Concerns Already Have Shut Off Displays.
With the deadline for the nationwide “brownout” only eight days away, stores, theaters, hotels and other business houses in Indianapolis today were preparing to comply with the government order. Already at least two concerns— L. Strauss & Co. and The Times— voluntarily had turned off their outdoor illumination. Most of the theaters, hotels and department stores were awaiting uniform’ rules being drawn up by the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. in. co-operation with various trade organizdtions. The city government tomorrow was to announce what, if any, changes will be made in highway and other outdoor lighting under its ‘control. Mayor Tyndall will meet with representatives of - the Power and Light Co. the war production board, which is directing the “brown out” as a part of its coal
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ed the last Nazis out of St. Vith,!
Atterbury, Ind.) moved up about | two miles. ae tn givision gained more pe Hanes were running | up another big bag in the second! straight day of assault on the re! treating Germans, Early reports: said that in 247 sorties, 464 German motor transport | vehicles were destroyed and 567 damaged.
British Advance
To the north, the British 2d army captured the four villages of Valdenrath, Obspringen, Laffeld and Locken in gains of half a mile east of St. Josst and beyond Ebensweert in the Dutch-Roer pocket. The capture of Laffeld brought the British within two miles of the big road center of Heinberg, Both the American 1st and American 3d armies reported the Nazis were wilting under unremitting ground pressure and the effects of yesterday's terrific air smash. The greatest one-day air blitz of the war knocked out 4100 German vehicles trying to get back inside the protection ot the Siegfried line. The 3d army punched out.s gain of four and a half miles from a point six mileg northeast of Houffalize. All along the line the 3d shoved | forward distances of a mile or more lst
conservation program, and city officlals.
City Churches.
By EMMA RIVERS MILNER 3 Times Church Editor “Unless the city churches reach out © and improve the country churches, great numbers of rural youth are going to swarm into the cities and become completely pagan in years to come,” the Riv. C. Morton
a professor in the ‘| Louisville PreshyUd re Rev. Mr. Han. TLR T. -- A na called the rural Bev. Hanna
BVAITIES Sa church the chur, greatest bi He ot orl
Farm Youth,
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Must Help
Leader Warns!
ence in session in the Meridian Street Methodist church . “Rural homes produce more children than those 'of the city,” the Rev. Mr. Hanna said. “It follows that hordes of rural sons and daughters leave the farms for urban centers when they reach
agulthood.
“These young folk have been brought up in plain country churches whose ‘main features are
. | preaching and Sunday schools, The
young people have been accusomed to mingle with the neighbors in a ‘and after services. “The city church presents a sharp jcontrast. It is well staffed, better equipped, presents. lovely, profes-
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less friendly. ly, the
Pvt. Thurman S. Moore « . « missing in action,
Hoosier Heroes—
ONE IS DEAD, 7 HURT AND 4’ ARE MISSING
Pvt. E. H. Meyer Reported,
Prisoner of Germans.
An Indianapolis infantryman has been added to the list of war dead
while four local men are missing
and seven more have been wounded. A former missing man has been! reported a prisoner of war.
KILLED
S. Sgt. Norman E. Brock, 844 S. Mount st., in Germany.
MISSING
Pvt. Wayne N. Selby, 501 N. Tacoma ave. in Belgium, Sgt. Joe E. Rich, 3207 N. Illinois , in Luxembourg. ‘Sgt. John R. York, 1001 College ave, in Belgium. Pvt. Russell Eakle,310 E. St. Clair st., in Germany.
WOUNDED
Pfc. Francis L, McLinn, 1603 E. LeGrande ave, in Luxembourg. Sgt. Frederick R. Tower, 1231 Lee st, in Germany.
SLICK SPOTS FOUND ON NORTHERN ROADS
The state highway commission re-
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ported tqday the presence of scat-
tered slick spots on roads north of U. 8. 40 Main roads in the south-
LONDON, Jan, 23 (U. P).—War Secretary Sir James Grigg today r reduction in
Mrs. Cipla X Mours . + « to her a missing watch is a symbol.
If Ons Returns, the Other Will, Mother.
Believes.
By VICTOR PETERSON
A MOTHER'S FEAR and intuition haunt Mrs. Clydia Moore, 622 N. Alabama st. Friday a telegram came from the war department . , . “Your son, Pvt. Thurman S. Moore, is missing in action.” Sorrow filled her heart. Superstition flamed in her mind, Ill for years with heart trouble, Mrs. Moore was sent to bed by her doctors. There she lies brooding. » » » x THE SAME DAY a watch, purchased for her son, was stolen
from the home, she said. In the last letter her son had written, he said: “lI would like very much to have a watch. Even a cheap one
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Doorway to the Did Polish Corridor Falls to Marshal Zhukov.
BULLETIN LONDON, Jan.23 (U.P. .—Raussian armies today reached the area of Poznan, 138 miles east of Berlin. They captured Bydgoszcs, gate: way of the old Polish corridor to the Baltic sea. Other Soviet units narrowed to’ 23 miles the East Prussian escape gap of 200,000 German troops.
By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 23. Mar shal Gregory XK. Zhu
stormed the bristling hedge. hog defenses on the approaches to Poznan. They were hammering at the gates of the last big Polish town between them and Berlin. The Nazi capital was just 138 miles west by way of one of Adolf Hitler's inviting super-highways. The Berlin radio meanwhile said “it is possible that single Soviet tanks temporarily reached the Oder,” last German defensive bare rier in the east. A Swiss broadcast reported that the Russians had reached that river between Breslau and Oppeln in Silesia. Break Into Outskirts
Alarmed Nazi leaders called upon the Wehrmacht and the people’s
+home army for a- death stand on the
borders of the Reich. “The German defense line in the east no longer exists,” the Moscow radio said. “The Red army soon will have crossed the German frontier along its entire length.” Moscow dispatches reported the Soviet charge into the Pomnan dee fenses. The German high command ace knowledged that the Russian tidal
wave had washed unchecked to the
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